The library will be available to Ansoft customers directly from
UMS (
www.ums-gaas.com) and is easily configured for use within the
Ansoft Designer design management front-end, planar EM simulator and
Nexxim circuit simulator. The kit is available on Microsoft Windows(R)
2000 and XP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux(R) v3 as well as Solaris 8 and 9
systems.

UMS and Ansoft collaborated with a major Japanese electronics
manufacturer and successfully developed a 60 GHz front-end MMIC for
short-range wireless communication. The ICs take advantage of the high
mobility .15-micron PHEMT process from UMS to achieve excellent
performance and stability at these millimeter-wave frequencies.

"Using Ansoft's next-generation simulation products, Nexxim and
Ansoft Designer, we are now able to design 60GHz transmitter/receiver
circuits," said Mr. Ken-ichi Ohta, Manager of Engineering Development.
"Our requirement for multi-tone harmonic-balance analysis of highly
nonlinear circuits made it impossible for us to use previous
generation simulation tools."

About UMS (United Monolithic Semiconductor)

United Monolithic Semiconductors designs, produces and markets
leading-edge RF, microwave and millimeter-wave components and systems
for the Telecom, Space, Defense, Automotive and ISM Industries. As an
independent joint venture between two of the world's leading
enterprises, THALES and EADS, UMS offers a broad range of standard and
custom-designed MMICs, along with an open advanced GaAs technology
foundry service. The open foundry provides an integrated suite of
services and high-volume capacity aimed at ensuring that ASIC designs
with leading-edge performance are fabricated successfully on the first
fabrication run. UMS has two production facilities, at Ulm in Germany,
and Orsay in France, where the commercial headquarters and product
design and development also are based. To learn more, please visit
www.ums-gaas.com.